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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

—Tacitus, c. 117

Every country has the government it deserves.

—Joseph de Maistre, 1811

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1787

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

—Dean Acheson, 1970

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

—H. Rap Brown, 1967

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1908

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

—George Borrow, 1843

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

—Magna Carta, 1215

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

—Walter Bagehot, 1863

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

—Horace, c. 8 BC